LESSON 1

PHRASAL
VERBS
Competence / Guiding Axis: Technology, information, communication, and learning. Students
will communicate, interact, and collaborate with others. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

Component: Technology and human development, generation, and responsible use of

information for learning, communication: interpersonal relationships, integration of learning
communities, Reading, writing and oral production as learning sources and abilities practice, the
importance of Reading to writing production, the importance of reading to writing in based
arguments.

Central content:
• The argumentative writing
• The impact of technology on human development, responsible use of information, learning and
innovating in and from the web, programming to learn
• Collaborative work in classroom as a basis for the integration of the learning community, the
importance of language and the role of grammar in it, argumentative text
• The text is a resource of information and new ideas.

Specific content:
• Suppositions and speculations,
• Typical language in English, talking about activities in progress until now
• Tense contrast

Expected Learning Outcome:

• Identify and use phrasal verbs to talk about different ideas
 LESSON 1

Welcome to this second partial. Now it’s time to learn about PHRASAL VERBS!,but first you must
remember some topics, for example simple present and Simple past tenses. Both tenses will be
useful to this expecting learning outcome.
Let me explain to you how to first find a “diagnostic activity”. It´ll be composed of a chart with
personal pronouns and the verb “to study” and you should conjugate the verb according to the
person and affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms.

After that, you find a similar chart but that’s about simple past tense. Then you must solve the third
activity: “Match the questions”, in this exercise you find the best answer to each question; and
finally, it’s a crossword like a vocabulary exercise.
Let's do it!!!

Diagnostic activity
a). - Complete using the verb Study
Personal Pronoun Simple Present
Affirmative Negative Interrogative
I I study I don’t Study Do I study?
You
He
She
It
We
They

Personal Pronoun Simple Past

Affirmative Negative Interrogative
I I studied I didn’t Study Did I study?
You
He
She
It
We
They
b). – Match the questions with their corresponding answers

Questions Answers
1.- What’s your name? a. If I’m sad, I talk to my friends
2.- How old are you? b. When I was a child, I used to ride my bike
3.- What’s your date of birth? c. C-A-L-A-K-M-U-L
4.-How do you spell that? d. My name is Junita Gomez
5.- What do you do if you have a final e. If It’s raining when I go to school, I take my
exam? umbrella or run to school
6.- What do you do if you are sad? f. I’m 17
7.- What do you do if it’s raining when g. If I have a final exam, I go with my friends to
you go to school? study together
8.- What did you use to do when you h. I was born on the 6 of June, 1975
th

were child?

c). – Crossword. Find 3 words related to recycling, 5 to clothes and 5 to food

F I S H A E R R T O L E U

W E W S A R W F R L P G A

E W P O L L U T I O N G E

E E T O E W E A H W A R D

R B T H A T E A S W A R Y

T R D R E W E A E W S R W

D E C O M P O S E R A R A

I A D R E W E A E R L E E

O D D R F R U I T E T D D

L A B E E W E A E E A R R

I A E E R E C Y C L E E E

O E L S E W E E E E E S L

L D T T E S K I R T D S L
 Reflect on the previous activities

Were you able to complete the charts in the present and past simple form? Did you remember
the form of the verb for the personal pronouns He, She, and It?

Could you match the questions and the answers correctly? Could you find all the words in the
crossword? If you have any problem, you must review previous English lessons.
In the English language is common to mix words, for example, a verb and a preposition or adverb.
Well, I will explain in detail how these Phrasal verbs are.

I.- A phrasal verb is a verb combined with an adverb or a preposition, or sometimes both, to give
a new meaning.
For example: get on (Subir)

Sentence Meaning
Josue, gets on the bus, please Josue needs to take the bus because He is leaving
Josue gets on well with his father Josue has a nice relationship with his father

Be careful with the third person (HE, SHE, IT) because you have to add an “S” to the verb,
for example:
 Also, you must pay attention to changing the verb in the past if the statement is in this
tense. Look at the example:

IMPORTANT❕

There are regular and irregular verbs. At the first type of verb, you have to add “ED” (Clean-
cleaned), “IED” (Try- tried) or double consonant + ED (Drop-dropped).

But if it is an irregular verb. We must change it following grammar rules. Here there are some
irregular verbs.
WHAT’S AN ADVERB
An adverb is a word that adds more information about place, time, manner, cause or degree to a
verb, an adjective, a phrase, or another adverb.

II.- Sometimes a phrasal verb is followed by a preposition

Phrasal Verb Preposition Example Meaning

Juanita doesn´t want to meet
Juanita always runs away from Josue.
Run away from
John She leaves quickly when she
sees him…

III.-Sometimes the phrasal verb has an object. Usually there are two positions for the object. You
can say:

Phrasal verb: Turn on; Object: The computer

Sheila turns on the computer Sheila turns the computer on

But, if the object is a pronoun (me, you, him, her, etc.), there is only one possible position for the
phrasal verb. Phrasal verb: turn on; Object: it (instead of the computer)

Sheila turns it on
There are some phrasal verbs with a particular meaning. See the next chart.

Phrasal verbs Meaning Translation Example

1 Clean up/tidy up Make something Limpiar The children have to clean
clean up their room
2 Break into To enter a Forzar The robbers break into my
(something) building by force house this morning
3 Break up (with Stop the Romper Pablo is very sad because he
somebody) relationship broke up with his fiancé
4 Drop in Visit somebody Entrar (un My friends just dropped in
for a short time momento) after school, yesterday
Write the
When You go to get your
Fill in (a form, a necessary
Llenar passport, you have to fill in
5 questionnaire) information on a
all the applications forms
form
6 Get out (of something To avoid doing Escapar I want to get out of this
you have arranged to) something work, but I can’t
7 Give up Stop doing Darse por I don’t give up all my
something vencido responsibilities
8 Heat up Make hotter Calentar The milk is cold, please, heat
it up
9 Look after Take care of Cuidar de My father has to look after
somebody us when my mother is away
10 Look for Search for Buscar I don’t know where my keys
something are. I have to look for them
11 Look out Be careful Estar atento It’s raining! Look out, the
floor is wet
12 Look up Find the meaning Buscar What’s the meaning of
in the dictionary plane?
Look it up in a dictionary
13 Wake up Stop Sleeping Despertar Don’t shout, please! Amira is
sleeping and she is going to
wake up
14 Put off Delay doing Posponer You have an exam
something tomorrow; don’t put off your
studies
15 Run out Something that Acabarse My car runs out of petrol, I
is finished need to buy some
16 See (somebody)off To say goodbye Despedir When we go to the airport to
to somebody see the children off
17 Take (it) out Remove Sacar Take the rubbish out of the
basket and put it outside,
please
18 Try on Try some clothes Probar I like this blouse; I will try it
on
19 Turn down To reduce the Bajar/reducir The music is too loud,
amount of sound please turn it down
20 Turn off/switch off Stop the power Apagar Hector, if you finish your
from something homework, turn the
computer off
Here you can find several examples:

➢ My brother and my cousin clean up the kitchen

➢ My brother and my cousin clean the kitchen up
➢ My brother and my cousin clean it up

→ My brother and my cousin cleaned up the kitchen

→ My brother and my cousin cleaned the kitchen up
→ My brother and my cousin cleaned it up
FIRST PART
Read the following sentences and complete them with the corresponding Phrasal Verb from the
box
LOOK AFTER GIVE UP BROKE UP HEAT UP
FILL IN TRY ON RAN OUT TAKE (IT) OUT

SEE (SOMEBODY) OF TURN OFF TURN DOWN TRY THEM ON

TURN THE VOLUME DOWN

1. Please, you don´t wait for me; I must_________________my grandma.

2. Raul doesn´t know how to _______________ this new “App”.
3. My best friend doesn’t want to ____________ with his studies.
4. Josefa has to ______________the X-box before she goes to sleep.
5. My cousin is so sad, She_______________ with her boyfriend.
6. Sorry, I don´t want to come to the game, I ___________ of time.
7. Their correlatives are leaving soon, they want to ______ our____.
8. Rosa, Ricardo, and I have to _______ the rubbish_____ of the kitchen every night.
9. My sister is buying some heeled shoes. She is going to __________ them______ to check
the size.
10. My father loves loud classical music, but our neighbor usually asks him to _______ the
volume_______.
SECOND PART
Solve the next exercise, match both columns, write inside the parentheses the correct option.

1.- My father doesn’t… ( ) drop in the new store.

2.-Well Friend, I will… ( ) broke into the main gate
of That building
3.-If you want the US Visa, you have to… ( ) look for them.
4.- At “Hechos” tv news said that a thief… ( ) look out, you can fall.
5.-My grandpa has the flu, so He… ( ) put it off, sorry.
6.-My mother lost her other heels and He asks me ( ) wake up early.
if I can …
7.-Oh no!!! The door of my house is open, My
dogs… ( ) got out of home!!!
8.-The floor is wet, please, you must ( ) heated up his ice cream
because It was so cold!!!
9.-Every morning I go to work, so I have to... ( ) Fill in a “DS-160” form.
10.- I´m so tired, I won’t go to the party I´ll... ( ) clean up his bedroom,
never!!!
CONCLUSION

After solving the exercises, you can recognize the phrasal verbs, remember they are formed by:

a. A verb

b. And an adverb or preposition, sometimes both.

For example:

Look after Fill in Clean up Try on Turn down

If you want to practice more, you can visit the following website:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/intermediate-to-upper-intermediate/phrasal-verbs
Now it's time to know the Assessment tools.

CHECK LIST
FIRST & SECOND PARTS

ASSESSMENT PLAN
NAME TYPE MODALITY WEIGHTING
“PHRASAL VERBS
FORMATIVE/TEACHER’S EVALUATION PROFESSOR-ASSESSMENT 50%
EXERCISES”
ITEM YES NO WEIGHTING

50%

PRESENTATION: 10%
a. It has a front with: School name, campus, subject, career, semester, group, student’s name,
teacher’s name, title (topic’s name), data.
b. Propose different ways to solve the exercise (Different given by teacher)
c. Evidence has all the elements asked by the teacher.
d. Delivery on day and time indicated
GRAMMAR: 10%
e. The sentences were structured coherently.
f. Use the grammatical structure correctly (PHRASAL VERBS)
g. It has the total of the exercises solved.
h. Student uses correctly the vocabulary and grammatical rules
ORTHOGRAPHY: 10%
i. There aren’t mistakes, haven’t blots and erasures.
j. Use of spelling accents.
k. Use periods, capital letters, commas.
l. Clean and tidy
PROCESS: 10%
m. Used “phrasal verbs” and changed them to right grammatical tense (If it corresponds)
n. Follow the grammatical exercise instructions.
o. Reflects a full reasoning using the correct process.
p. Done a short vocabulary of the words that the student does not know.
Student participates with disposition during the activity, (Meet or Classroom sessions) 10%
Student doesn’t copy the answers from classmates or deliver as own it. (To be honest)
He/She submit the outcome obtained from exercises and it’s right. He/She can prove it.
Student is able to apply the topic in his/her daily life
TOTAL

FEEDBACK:
SOURCES:
Torres, M. (2015). Lengua Adicional al Español III. México, D.F. Secretaría de Educación Pública.
pp 174-176
 LESSON 2

PRESENT
PERFECT
Competence / Guiding Axis: Technology, information, communication, and learning. Students
will communicate, interact, and collaborate with others. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

Component: Technology and human development, generation, and responsible use of

information for learning, communication: interpersonal relationships, integration of learning
communities, Reading, writing and oral production as learning sources and abilities practice, the
importance of Reading to writing production, the importance of reading to writing in based
arguments.

Central content:
• The argumentative writing
• The impact of technology on human development, responsible use of information, learning
and innovating in and from the web, programming to learn
• Collaborative work in classroom as a basis for the integration of the learning community,
the importance of language and the role of grammar in it, argumentative text
• The text is a resource of information and new ideas.

Specific content:
• Suppositions and speculations,
• Typical language in English, talking about activities in progress until now
• Tense contrast

Expected Learning Outcome:

• Recognize how to express ideas that something started in the past and has continued up
until now, both orally and written (Present Perfect)
When the people express themselves and don’t establish the time for the action, it could
be PRESENT PERFECT TENSE. Before introducing this tense, you must be able to
recognize which is the correct form of verb “To Have” according personal pronouns.

PERSONAL PRONOUN CONJUGATION TRANSLATION

I HAVE TENGO

YOU HAVE TIENES, TIENE, TIENEN

HE HAS TIENE

SHE HAS TIENE

IT HAS TIENE

WE HAVE TENEMOS

THEY HAVE TIENEN

DIAGNOSTIC ACTIVITY

Also, you need to remember the Regular and Irregular verbs, so here is a puzzle with
some verbs. The hidden words can be found in any direction: up, down, forward,
backward or diagonally

“C” VERBS

L R T T U E S O D V A B U E R

T T X R W U R Y U P B P L U A

A C H A N G E L D D U C A T F

K O O C T D O T O O A L V L X

K A N R I T R D A T U C E R A

I C L I M B T O C E U O T V A

G H E D O X E H X V R B I I R

R A A H G C S O R C M C C H U

N S S I C O P Y O S H P H P U

Z E D P M W R N H U X R O H K

V C O L L I D E C K C I O S C

H E R J U U L K V Z L Y S U I

E S Q S C E L E B R A T E T E

S P T T S E A Q E B I G O R T

O T U G R L C H N N M T K R B

How many verbs did you find?

There are twenty different “C Verbs”

DEFINITION: We use the Present Perfect Tense for actions in the past which are still true
or important in the present. It's important to say that We don’t know when the actions
happened

I.- AFFIRMATIVE FORM

STRUCTURE:

Be careful if you use regular verbs, remember that:

Add "ed" to most verbs

1. Add "ed" to most verbs d
2. If a verb of one syllable ends [consonant-vowel-consonant], double the final
consonant and add "ed"

3. If the final consonant is "w," "x," or "y," don't double it

4. If the last syllable of a longer verb is stressed and ends [consonant-vowel-

consonant], double the last consonant and add "ed”

5. If the first syllable of a longer verb is stressed and the verb ends [consonant-vowel-
consonant], just add "ed"

6. If the verb ends "e," just add "d"

7. If the verb ends [consonant + "y"], change the "y" to an "i" and add "ed"
EXAMPLES WITH REGULAR VERBS

Shayla Durcal has painted a landscape, She is a painter too

The car has stopped suddenly at the traffic lights.

The butcher has mixed the meat.

I have preferred a red wine instead of a rose.

Robert, a bellboy, has opened the main gate in the hotel.

Layla and Laurent have danced at CECYTEC festival

I have studied a lot!

When You want to do sentences in the present perfect using irregular verbs, you
have to use their past participle form.

INFINITIVE PAST PAST PARTICIPLE

TO SING SANG SUNG

(CANTAR) (CANTÓ) (CANTADO)

Malumma has sung “Hawai” song feat “Weekend”, another singer.

So, How We can translate this tense, pay attention to…

In this tense “Have” is translated like: HA, and the verb (Regular or Irregular) will have an
ending “ADO, IDO”
REGULAR VERB…

I HAVE TRAVELED
YO HE VIAJADO

YOU HAVE TRAVELED

TÚ, USTED, HAS, HA, HAN VIAJADO
USTEDES

HE HAS TRAVELED
ÉL HA VIAJADO

SHE HAS TRAVELED

ELLA HA VIAJADO

IT HAS TRAVELED
HA VIAJADO

WE HAVE TRAVELED
NOSOTROS HEMOS VIAJADO

THEY HAVE TRAVELED

ELLOS HAN VIAJADO
IRREGULAR VERB

HAVE SUNG
I
HE CANTADO
YO

YOU HAVE SUNG

TÚ, USTED, HAS, HA, HAN CANTADO
USTEDES

HE HAS SUNG
ÉL HA CANTADO

SHE HAS SUNG

ELLA HA CANTADO

IT HAS SUNG
HA CANTADO

WE HAVE SUNG
NOSOTROS HEMOS CANTADO

THEY HAVE SUNG

ELLOS HAN CANTADO
 II.- NEGATIVE FORM
If We can use this tense in a negative form, only we must write NOT or N’T next to the
“HAVE”. For example:

REGULAR VERB…

I HAVEN’T/ HAVE NOT TRAVELED

YO NO HE VIAJADO

YOU HAVEN’T TRAVELED

TÚ, USTED, USTEDES NO HAS,NO HA, NO HAN VIAJADO

HE HASN’T TRAVELED
ÉL NO HA VIAJADO

SHE HAS’T TRAVELED

ELLA NO HA VIAJADO

IT HAS’T TRAVELED
NO HA VIAJADO

WE HAVEN’T TRAVELED
NOSOTROS NO HEMOS VIAJADO

THEY HAVEN’T TRAVELED

ELLOS NO HAN VIAJADO
IRREGULAR VERB…

I HAVEN’T/ HAVE NOT SUNG

YO NO HE CANTADO

YOU HAVEN’T SUNG

TÚ, USTED, USTEDES NO HAS,NO HA, NO HAN CANTADO

HE HASN’T SUNG
ÉL NO HA CANTADO

SHE HAS’T SUNG

ELLA NO HA CANTADO

IT HAS’T SUNG
NO HA CANTADO

WE HAVEN’T SUNG
NOSOTROS NO HEMOS CANTADO

THEY HAVEN’T SUNG

ELLOS NO HAN CANTADO
 III.- INTERROGATIVE or QUESTION FORM

Do an interrogative sentence using present perfect. It's really easy, You only have to
switch “Have” and personal pronouns or names. Look at the charts:

REGULAR VERB…

HAVE I TRAVELED?
HE (YO) VIAJADO

HAVE YOU TRAVELED?

HAS, HA, HAN (TÚ, USTED, USTEDES) VIAJADO

HAS HE TRAVELED?
HA (ÉL) VIAJADO

HAS SHE TRAVELED?

HA (ELLA) VIAJADO

HAS IT TRAVELED?
HA VIAJADO

HAVEN WE TRAVELED?
HEMOS (NOSOTROS) VIAJADO

HAVE THEY TRAVELED?

HAN (ELLOS) VIAJADO
IRREGULAR VERB…

HAVE I SUNG?
HE (YO) CANTADO?

HAVE YOU SUNG?

HAS, HA, HAN (TÚ, USTED, USTEDES) CANTADO?

HAS HE SUNG?
HA (ÉL) CANTADO?

HAS SHE SUNG?

HA (ELLA) CANTADO?

HAS IT SUNG?
HA CANTADO?

HAVEN WE SUNG?
HEMOS (NOSOTROS) CANTADO?

HAVE THEY SUNG?

HAN (ELLOS) CANTADO?
ACTIVITY USING PRESENT PERFECT

Instructions: Complete the sentences with the present perfect forms of the verbs in
brackets
1. Juan David parent´s___________________ in Tenabo all their lives. (LIVE)
2. Octavio Paz _________________________ more than 267 books. ( WRITE)
3. 77.7% of people from Mexican Republic____________never__________ abroad
(GO)
4. Maria Laura _____________________ the hundred of emails that Raul has sent
(NOT READ)
5. My friend and I_______________ “The conjuring 3” yet. (NOT WATCH)
6. Do you like “Mondongo”? I don’t know _________________ it. (NOT TASTE)
7. ________Maria Jose _______ the school? No, She hasn’t (LEAVE)
8. ________ Male SeaHorses _______ pregnant? (BE)
9. ________ your family ever ________ to Venice? (TRAVEL)
10. _________ This computer_______the emails? (SEND)
 CONCLUSION

We use the Present Perfect to talk about something that has (or hasn't)happened in the
past. We don’t say any specific time but we mean “in my life up to now”

We form the Present Perfect with HAVE/HAS + the past participle or the verb:
a.- Regular past participles are the same as the past form and end in “ED”
b.- Many verbs have irregular past participles
If you remember, irregular verbs don’t have grammar rules to change into past participles
so I’ll give you a list of them.
If you want to practice more, you can visit the following website:
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-exercise-4.html
Now it's time to know the Assessment tools.

CHECK LIST
PRESENT PERFECT ACTIVITY

ASSESSMENT PLAN
NAME TYPE MODALITY WEIGHTING
“PRESENT PERFECT EXERCISE” FORMATIVE/TEACHER’S PROFESSOR-
25%
(SENTENCES) EVALUATION ASSESSMENT
ITEM YES NO WEIGHTING

25%

PRESENTATION: 5%
a. It has a front with: School name, campus, subject, career, semester, group, student’s name,
teacher’s name, title (topic’s name), data.
b. Propose different ways to solve the exercise (Different given by teacher)
c. Evidence has all the elements asked by the teacher.
d. Delivery on day and time indicated
GRAMMAR: 5%
e. The sentences were structured coherently.
f. Use the grammatical structure correctly (PRESENT PERFECT)
g. It has the total of the exercises solved.
h. Student uses correctly the vocabulary and grammatical rules
ORTHOGRAPHY: 5%
i. There aren’t mistakes, haven’t blots and erasures.
j. Use of spelling accents.
k. Use periods, capital letters, commas.
l. Clean and tidy
PROCESS: 5%
m. Used “present perfect” and changed them to right grammatical tense (If it corresponds)
n. Follow the grammatical exercise instructions.
o. Reflects a full reasoning using the correct process.
p. Done a short vocabulary of the words that the student does not know.
Student participates with disposition during the activity, (Meet or Classroom sessions) 5%
Student doesn’t copy the answers from classmates or deliver as own it. (To be honest)
He/She submit the outcome obtained from exercises and it’s right. He/She can prove it.
Student is able to apply the topic in his/her daily life
TOTAL

FEEDBACK:
SOURCES:
Cunningham & Moor. (2004). Cutting Edge “Elementary”. Madrid, España. Edit.
Longman. Module 13 p 160

Saumell & Birchley. (2012). English in Common 5. N.Y, U.S.A. Edit. Pearson Education.
Unit 6. p 67
 LESSON 3

SIMPLE PAST
VS
PRESENT
PERFECT
Competence / Guiding Axis: Technology, information, communication, and learning. Students
will communicate, interact, and collaborate with others. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

Component: Technology and human development, generation, and responsible use of

information for learning, communication: interpersonal relationships, integration of learning
communities, Reading, writing and oral production as learning sources and abilities practice, the
importance of Reading to writing production, the importance of reading to writing in based
arguments.

Central content:
• The argumentative writing
• The impact of technology on human development, responsible use of information, learning
and innovating in and from the web, programming to learn
• Collaborative work in classroom as a basis for the integration of the learning community,
the importance of language and the role of grammar in it, argumentative text
• The text is a resource of information and new ideas.

Specific content:
• Suppositions and speculations,
• Typical language in English, talking about activities in progress until now
• Tense contrast

Expected Learning Outcome:

• Recognize the difference between actions that started and ended in the past at a specific
time and actions that started in the past and continues until now or the exact time isn’t
important (Simple Past and Present Perfect)
The past simple is often confused with the present perfect tense. If you remember, we use the
past simple to talk about actions and situations that are finished. For example:

Delia and I trained for the “iron man” race last year

Talk in past simple you often say when the action happened:

The first soccer match was in “Real del Monte”, in Hidalgo, Guanajuato, in 1841.
I watched the Flowers´ House film on Monday.
Ignacio arrived at two o’clock.

Remember that there is a special structure for present perfect tense. Here it’s:
Look at some examples of regular and irregular verbs:

DIAGNOSTIC ACTIVITY

Instructions: Tick the true sentences and Correct the false ones. The statements are in
the past simple affirmative.

• Sebastian travel to CDMX two weeks ago_______

• Hilda was in Can-Cun two months ago _______
• Sara ran so fast yesterday ________
• Gustavo, Mireya and Paco maked their daily chores _______
• Selena Quintanilla sang tex mex songs._______
Translate the following verbs
Present Perfect are completed in a period of time that is unfinished. You don’t say the
exact time in the past of the action.

When We use this tense, the actions don’t have a specific time, and don’t indicate
“When” they happen, only the outcome is important. The present perfect refers to
Recently actions
 PRESENT PERFECT GRAMMAR STRUCTURE

NOUN, PERSONAL HAVE PAST PARTICIPLE COMPLEMENT

PRONOUN, NAME REGULAR VERB

You have watched a soap opera on

TV

They have danced a waltz

PRESENT PERFECT GRAMMAR STRUCTURE

NOUN, PERSONAL HAS PAST PARTICIPLE COMPLEMENT

PRONOUN, NAME REGULAR VERB

She has watched a soap opera on

TV

He has danced a waltz

PRESENT PERFECT GRAMMAR STRUCTURE

NOUN, PERSONAL HAVE PAST PARTICIPLE COMPLEMENT

PRONOUN, NAME IRREGULAR VERB

You have done a great job!!

They have woken up early

 PRESENT PERFECT GRAMMAR STRUCTURE

NOUN, PERSONAL HAS PAST PARTICIPLE COMPLEMENT

PRONOUN, NAME IRREGULAR VERB

She has done a great job!!

He has woken up early

Remember that if you want to write a sentence in negative present perfect tense,
you must write HAVEN’T or HASN’T:
• You haven’t watched a soap opera on TV
• She hasn’t danced a waltz
• I haven’t woken up early this morning!!
• He hasn’t done a great job

But the sentence is a question, you have to write in the first place HAVE or
HAS, then noun + verb in past participle + complement.+ question mark?
→ Have you watched a soap opera on TV?
→ Has She danced a waltz?
→ Have you woken up early this morning?
→ Has He done a great job?
Use the simple past to talk about completed actions in the past.

SIMPLE PAST GRAMMAR STRUCTURE

NOUN, PERSONAL PAST SIMPLE REGULAR COMPLEMENT

PRONOUN, NAME VERB

You watched a soap opera on TV last

year

They danced a waltz in 2020

 SIMPLE PAST GRAMMAR STRUCTURE

NOUN, PERSONAL PAST SIMPLE COMPLEMENT

PRONOUN, NAME REGULAR VERB

She watched this soap opera on TV

last year

He danced a waltz in 2020

SIMPLE PAST GRAMMAR STRUCTURE

NOUN, PERSONAL PRONOUN, PAST PAST IRREGULAR COMPLEMENT

NAME VERB

You lost a great

job yesterday!!

They woke up at 7 o'clock

SIMPLE PAST GRAMMAR STRUCTURE

NOUN, PERSONAL PAST PARTICIPLE COMPLEMENT

PRONOUN, NAME IRREGULAR VERB

She lost a great

job yesterday!!

He woke up at 7 o’clock
 Remember that if you want to write a sentence in the negative simple past tense,
you must write DIDN’T and the VERB has to change into an infinitive form

• You didn’t watch a soap opera on TV last night

• She didn’t dance a waltz in 2020
• I didn’t wake up at 7 o’clock
• He didn’t lose a great job yesterday!!

But the sentence is a question, you have to write in the first place DID + noun +
infinitive verb + complement.+ question mark?
• Did you watch a soap opera on TV last night?
• Did She dance a waltz in 2020?
• Did you wake up at 7 o’clock?
• Did He lose a great job yesterday?

But the question is “How can I distinguish between a present perfect and simple past

sentence?

Well, there are some “clues” or “helpers” (TIME EXPRESSIONS) to both tenses; look at these examples
EXAMPLES PRESENT PERFECT
Pakito has been to Egypt
He has swan in the Red Sea
He has smoked “Shisha”
I have already done
We have just gone out
Have you done yet? No, I haven't yet
I have taught for 11 years
He has known her since They were kids
I have seen him recently
Have you ever been to Paris?
I never have been to Paris

EXAMPLES SIMPLE PAST

→ He went to Paris in 1999

→ He took a picture near triumphal arch 20 years ago
→ He drank coffee and ate croissant in Paris last century
→ I went to Egypt last year
→ Michael Jackson wrote many hits in the 1980’s

Now it’s time to practice, complete this letter with the present perfect or simple past of the
verbs in brackets

Dear Mary:
My mom and I _________(arrive) to the beach last Friday. I
__________(be) here for 3 days. We never___________(be) in a place like
this. It’s an amazing place!!!
The weather is incredible, My mom_______(swim) every morning. I
while________(go) shopping in town and __________(buy).
The food is excellent, We_______(go) to many typical restaurants and
my mom________(taste) all traditional dishes.
I miss you, see you soon.

Sincerely Tomas
Was it easy?? Do you have any questions? If you have doubts here are the answers

Dear Mary:
My mom and I arrived (arrive) to the beach last friday. I have been
(be) here for 3 days. We never have been ( be) in a place like this. It’s
an amazing place!!!
The weather is incredible, My mom has swung (swim) every
morning. while I have gone (go) shopping in town and have bought
(buy).
The food is excellent. We have gone (go) to many typical restaurants
and my mom has tasted (taste) all traditional dishes.
I miss you, see you soon.

Sincerely Tomas

How many were wrong and right?? Don´t worry it was only a review.
Completed the following TV news with the present perfect or past simple of the verbs in
brackets.

1. A survivor’s story one month ago, “Spay” (a little pit bull dog)_____________(GO) outside
ti drink some water. Seconds later, the ground fell!!!
2. Training rescuers so far this year, 20 local rescuers____________(COMPLETE) training
courses in Juan C: Bonilla province
3. Images of survival last week, TV Azteca ______________(ORGANISE) a special exhibition
of photographs of survivors pets in accidents
4. Healthier futures association, this year, They ____________(BUILD) two pets clinics and
refuges in Puebla and hope to build one more next year.
5. No deliveries refugees in Zacatepec_______________(NOT RECEIVE) any food supplies
this month

Complete the questions below with the verbs in the box

SEE READ GIVE SEE VISIT

1. Have you__________ the dentist this year?

2. When did you last ______ an optician?
3. Have you ever ________a doctor in another country?
4. Have you_______stories in the news about organizations like TV Azteca?
5. How often did you _____money to a charity last year?
If you want to practice more, you can visit the following website:
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-present-perfect-1.html
Now it's time to know the Assessment tools.

CHECK LIST
SIMPLE PAST vs PRESENT PERFECT ACTIVITY

ASSESSMENT PLAN
NAME TYPE MODALITY WEIGHTING
“SIMPLE PAST and PRESENT PERFECT FORMATIVE/TEACHER’S PROFESSOR-
25%
EXERCISE” (SENTENCES) 1
EVALUATION ASSESSMENT
ITEM YES NO WEIGHTING
25%
PRESENTATION: 5%
a. It has a front with: School name, campus, subject, career, semester, group, student’s name,
teacher’s name, title (topic’s name), data.
b. Propose different ways to solve the exercise (Different given by teacher)
c. Evidence has all the elements asked by the teacher.
d. Delivery on day and time indicated
GRAMMAR: 5%
e. The sentences were structured coherently.
f. Use the grammatical structure correctly (SIMPLE PAST and PRESENT PERFECT)
g. It has the total of the exercises solved.
h. Student uses correctly the vocabulary and grammatical rules
ORTHOGRAPHY: 5%
i. There aren’t mistakes, haven’t blots and erasures.
j. Use of spelling accents.
k. Use periods, capital letters, commas.
l. Clean and tidy
PROCESS: 5%
m. Used “simple past and present perfect” and changed them to right grammatical tense (If it
corresponds)
n. Follow the grammatical exercise instructions.
o. Reflects a full reasoning using the correct process.
p. Done a short vocabulary of the words that the student does not know.
Student participates with disposition during the activity, (Meet or Classroom sessions) 5%
Student doesn’t copy the answers from classmates or deliver as own it. (To be honest)
He/She submit the outcome obtained from exercises and it’s right. He/She can prove it.
Student is able to apply the topic in his/her daily life
TOTAL

FEEDBACK:
SOURCES:
Cunningham & Moor. (2004). Cutting Edge “Elementary”. Madrid, España. Edit.
Longman. Module 13 p 160

Saumell & Birchley. (2012). English in Common 5. N.Y, U.S.A. Edit. Pearson Education.
Unit 6. p 67